Adolfo Lara

Adolfo is a consultant for the Latin America Legal Program. He supports legal and strategic actions before the Inter-American Human Rights System and the United Nations System.
Before joining Race and Equality, Adolfo worked at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights for almost five years in the areas of substantive matters, supervision of compliance with judgments, provisional measures, and advisory opinions. Prior to that, he worked in the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of Costa Rica, handling appeals for protection, habeas corpus, and constitutionality actions.
His experience also includes internships at the Center for Electoral Assistance and Promotion of the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights and the Attorney General’s Office of Costa Rica. He holds a law degree from the University of Costa Rica and has studied public international law at The Hague Academy of International Law, politics and democracy at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, and human rights at the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights. He is currently a Chevening scholar and is pursuing a master’s degree in global politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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